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How Sensor-Laden Buoys Lead to a Better Understanding of Arctic Sea Ice Melting

How does a team from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center deploy specially modified, sensor-laden buoys into the Arctic Ocean to better understand Arctic Sea ice melting? Watch this video to find out!

"NASA’s ARCSIX is a mission trying to understand the melt of the Arctic sea ice, and specifically how clouds play into that,” said Dr. Chris Polashenski  , ERDC-CRREL’s principal investigator for the project. “As the sea ice goes away, more clouds form in the Arctic. Those clouds act as a blanket over the Arctic, causing it to warm further and possibly melt more sea ice. We're trying to figure out more about that feedback.”

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    00:00:00 e NASA ark6 is a mission trying to understand the Melt of the Arctic sea ice and specifically how clouds play into that as the sea ice goes away more clouds form in the Arctic those clouds act as a blanket over the Arctic causing it to warm further and possibly melt more sea ice we're trying to figure out more about that

    00:01:02 [Music] feedback our part of the mission was to put a bunch of sensors out on the sea ice themselves we did this by installing them on what we call our ice mass balance buoy it's a buoy that's deployed by drilling a hole in the sea ice and putting this uh set of instrumentation down through the sea ice and it broadcasts data back by satellite modem

    00:01:37 and we can add all kinds of different sensors to that in this case we had uh added radiation sensors so we could see how much sunlight was reaching the surface through the clouds and how much longwave radiation was coming back from the clouds [Music] [Music] [Music]